Lacrosse at the Summer Olympics
Lacrosse has been contested at two editions of the Summer Olympic Games, 1904 and 1908. Both times a Canadian team won the competition. In its first year, two teams from Canada and one team from the United States competed at the games in St. Louis, Missouri. Only two teams, one from Canada and one from Great Britain competed in 1908 in London.
Lacrosse at the 1948 Summer Olympics
Lacrosse is a contact team sport played with a lacrosse stick and a lacrosse ball. It is the oldest organized sport in North America, with its origins with the indigenous people of North America as early as the 12th century. The game was extensively modified by European colonists, reducing the violence, to create its current collegiate and professional form.
Men's field lacrosse game between North Carolina and Duke
Ball-play of the Choctaw – ball up by George Catlin, c. 1846–1850
Ball Players by George Catlin
Richmond Hill "Young Canadians" lacrosse team, 1885